

View of the Monument 

FROM SOUTH ENTRANCE TO BROADWAY PARK 



1861 1905 

jf^rogram of )£xerd8e6 

at tbe 

Dedication of a Soldiers monument 

ErccteJ) bB 

Cfte first Connecticut Cigbt Battery 

Cbe $ixtb, Seventb and Centb 

Connecticut Uolunteers 

monument Association 

at tbe Broa^wa^ par?? 
IRew IKaven, 3une 16, 1905 

iripon tbe jfort^ssjftret anniversary of tbe 

Battle of Burmuba 1bun^re^ 

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Press of 

The Price, Lee &" Adkins Co. 

New Haven, Conn. 



fvlAW 5 1906 




CuL. John L. Ciiatfikld 



FIRST COMMANDER OF 
THE SIXTJI CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS 



eotntnandind Officers of the 
Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Uolunteer Infantry 

Col. John L. Chatfield. Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel 
Third Connecticut Volunteers; Colonel Sixth Connecticut Volun- 
teers; enlisted August 20, 1861; mustered September 13, 1861; 
wounded Pocotaligo, S. C, October 22, 1862; mortally wounded 
in charge on Fort Wagner, S.C., July 18, 1863. Died August 9, 
1863. 

Col. Redfield Duryee, Waterbury. Mustered in Adjutant 
September 13, 1861; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel September 21, 
1863 ; Colonel, December 10, 1863. Resigned May 29, 1864. 

Col. Alfred P. Rockwell. Promoted from Captain First 
Connecticut Light Battery, June 18, 1864; Brevetted Brigadier- 
General United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865. Died at New 
Haven, December 24, 1903. 




Major-General a. II. Terry, U. S. A. 



THE FIRST COMMANDER 
SEVENTH REGIMENT, CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS 



eommanaind Officers of the 
Seventb Regiment, Connecticut Uolunteer Tnfdntry 

Col. Alfred H. Terry. Enlisted August 20, 1861, Colonel 
Second Connecticut Volunteers ; mustered Colonel Seventh Connec- 
ticut Volunteers, September 17, 1861; promoted Brigadier-General 
United States Volunteers, April 25, 1862; Major-General United 
States Volunteers, January 15, 1865; Brigadier-General United 
States Army, January 15, 1865; Major-General United States 
Army, March 3, 1866. Eetired at his own request on account of 
failing health, April 5, 1888. Died at New Haven December 16, 
1890. 

Col. Joseph E. Hawlet. Captain Company A, First Connec- 
ticut Volunteers; mustered Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh Connecti- 
cut Volunteers, September 17, 1861 ; promoted Colonel, June 20, 
1862; Brigadier-General United States Volunteers, September 13, 
1864 ; Brevetted Major-General United States Volunteers, Septem- 
ber 28, 1865 ; discharged January 15, 1866 ; United States Senator 
from 1881-1905. Died in Washington, D. C, March 18, 1905. 

Col. Seager S. Atwell. Mustered Captain Company A, Sep- 
tember 6, 1861; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel November 22, 1864; 
Colonel, July 1, 1865 ; mustered out July 1, 1865. 




Col. Charles L. Eussell 



FIRST COMMAA'DEK OF 
THE TENTH REGIJIENT, CONNECTICUT VOLUNNTEERS 



gomtttanditid Officers of tbe 
tenth Reditnent, Connecticut Uolunteer Infantry 

Col. Charles L. Eussell, Derby. Adjutant Second Connec- 
ticut Volunteers; enlisted October 24, 1861, Colonel Tenth Con- 
necticut Volunteers; mustered October 26, 1861. Killed at 
Eoanoke Island, N. C, February 8, 1862. 

Col. Albert W. Drake, South Windsor. Enlisted October 26, 
1861 ; mustered Lieutenant-Colonel October 26, 1861 ; promoted 
Colonel February 8, 1862 ; served as First Lieutenant Company A, 
First Eegiment, Connecticut Volunteers. Died at South Windsor 
June 5, 1862. 

Col. Ira W. Pettibone, Winchester. Appointed Major Octo- 
ber 30, 1861; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel February 8, 1862; 
Colonel, June 5, 1862. Eesigned November 15, 1862. 

Col. Johjs- L. Otis, Manchester. Enlisted August 29, 1861; 
mustered Lieutenant Company B, October 29, 1861; promoted 
Captain Company I July 12, 1862 ; promoted Major, November 29, 
1862; Colonel, March 14, 1863; wounded at Kingston, N". C, 
December 14, 1862; resigned October 18, 1864; Brevetted Briga- 
dier-General United States Volunteers March 13, 1865. Died 
March 14, 1894, at Tarpon Springs, Fla. 

Col. Edwin S. Greeley, New Haven. Enlisted August 31, 
1861 ; mustered First Lieutenant Company C, October 22, 1861 ; 
promoted Captain Company A April 25, 1862; Major, March 14, 
1863; Lieutenant-Colonel, September 7, 1864; Colonel, February 
16, 1865; Brevetted Brigadier-General March 13, 1865. Dis- 
charged September 2, 1865. 

Col. Ellsworth D. S. Goodyear, North Haven. Enlisted 
October 31, 1861 ; mustered Captain Company C October 22, 1861 ; 
discharged October 7, 1864; appointed Major December 1, 1864; 
Lieutenant-Colonel, February 17, 1865 ; wounded in charge of Fort 
Gregg, Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865; Brevetted Colonel and 
Brigadier-General April 2, 1865. Discharged for disability June 
2, 1865. 




CaPT. AlFKED p. liOCKWELL 

THE FIRST COMMANDER OF 

THE FIRST CONNECTICUT I.IGIIT BATTERY, CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS 

COLONEL SIXTH CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS 

AND BREVET BRIGADIEK-GENERAL UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS 



Ccmtnanacrs of the first Connecticut Cigbt Battery, 
Connecticut Uolunteers 

Capt. Alfred P. Eockwell, Norwich; Mustered in United 
States Service January 20, 1863 ; promoted Colonel Sixth Connec- 
ticut Volunteers June 18, 1864. 

Capt. James B. Clinton, New Haven; Mustered Sergeant; 
promoted First Sergeant February 27, 1863; Second Lieutenant, 
February 3, 1863; First Lieutenant, March 13, 1863; Captain, 
July 10, 1864; discharged Jime 11, 1865 



historical Sketch 

of tbc 

Builbino anb S>cbication 

of tbe 

flftonument 

The long talked of soldiers' monument, to be built by the First 
Connecticut Light Battery, the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connec- 
ticut Volunteers Monument Association, has been erected m Broad- 
way Park, New Haven, and was dedicated with impressive cere- 
mony June 16, 1905. 

The idea of building a monument by the joint action of the 
Tenth Connecticut Volunteers associated with other Veteran organ- 
izations, was first suggested by Gen. E. S. Greeley at the annual 
reunion of the Tenth Connecticut Volunteers Association held at 
Meriden, September 5, 1894. A committee of five was appointed 
to investigate the matter and report as to the feasibility of buildmg 
a monument either as a regimental affair or in connection with 
other veteran associations with whom they could affliate. 

It was soon found that the Sixth and Seventh Connecticut 
Volunteers and the First Connecticut Light Battery had not as yet 
taken steps to avail themselves of the state appropriation of one 
thousand dollars each, and were waiting to ascertain the views of 
their respective associations in regard to whether a monument 
should be built and where it should be located. Two years later 
a committee from the above named organizations was appointed 
to consider the matter of building a joint monument. During the 
year 1897 a conference with the cammittees of the Sixth and Tenth 
Connecticut Volunteers and First Light Battery was held, which 
resulted in an informal organization called "The Joint Monument 
Association of the Sixth and Tenth Connecticut Volunteers and 
First Light Battery." 



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The next two years were spent in looking up designs and obtain- 
ing estimates of cost. An invitation was at this time extended to 
the Veteran Association of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers to 
join with the above named organizations in the effort to build a 
monument, but on account of the desire on the part of General 
Hawley of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, and many of his 
friends, to build a monument at Hartford instead of New Haven, 
we were not able to secure their co-operation. In the meantime 
the joint committee secured a design of a monument by which the 
three organizations could be represented by tablets placed on the 
base of either of three sides, the fourth reserved for inscription to 
General Terry, the whole to be surmounted by an equestrian statue 
of Major-General Alfred H. Terry. This seemed to be a very 
appropriate design for a memorial, since all of the three organiza- 
tions served in General Terry's division, Tenth Corps, Army of the 
James. 

It was ascertained that a memorial of this character would in- 
volve the raising of a large sum of money in addition to the state 
appropriation of one thousand dollars for each regiment and 
battery, and after trying for three years to provide ways and means 
to build a monument of this character, the committee did not 
obtain sufficient encouragement either from the citizens of New 
Haven or the friends of Gen. Terry to warrant proceeding with 
the plan, and it was abandoned. 

During the year 1904 the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Asso- 
ciation gave up the idea of building a monument at Hartford and 
joined with the three veteran organizations already named for the 
purpose of carrying out the plan of erecting a joint monument. 

A joint committee of the four organizations held meetings, and 
finally at a meeting of the executive committees held at New 
Haven, June 7, 1904, a corporation was formed under the statute 
laws of Connecticut with articles of association as follows: 

Article 1. The name of said corporation shall be The First Light 
Battery and the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut. Volunteers Monu- 
ment Association. 

Aet. 2. The purposes for which said corporation is formed are the 
following, to wit: 

To receive appropriations made by the General Assembly of the State 
of Connecticut for the erection of memorial tablets or monuments by said 
Battery and Regiments, or either of them, and to locate and erect such 




Gen. Edwin S. Greeley 



COLONKI, TliNTir CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS 
I'liESlUENT OF MONUMENT ASSOCIATION 



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memorial tablets or monuments within the State of Connecticut, in accord- 
ance with the provisions of the resolutions of said General Assembly mak- 
ing such appropriations^ and to make contracts for the same and to pay 
bills contracted therefor, and to make and carry out such arrangements 
and incur such expense as said corporation may determine for the dedi- 
cation of the same, and to receive and expend such contributions as may 
be made to defray the expenses of the foregoing objects, and to disburse the 
funds received for the general purposes for which it is organized, and to 
make by-laws relative to its officers; the admission of members; and such 
other matters as may be deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of 
the corporation. 

At a meeting of the incorporators held at New Haven on the 

7th day of Jnne, 1904, the articles of incorporation were approved, 

by-laws were adopted, and the following named comrades were 

elected officers : 

President. 

Gen. Edwin S. Gkeelet, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

Vice President. 
Capt. Alfred B. Beers, Sixth Connecticut Volunteers. 

Treasurer. 
John T. Sloan, First Light Battery. 

Secretary. 
William E. Whittelsey, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

Executive Committee. 

Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

Edward Griswold, First Connecticut Light Battery. 

Virgil F. McNeil, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers. 

Louis B. Brown, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

William H. Bouton, Sixth Connecticut Volunteers. 

The by-laws adopted empowered the officers and executive com- 
mittee to select a design, to make contracts for the erection of the 
monument, receive appropriations from the State and City and 



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donations from any other sources, to raise the funds needed to 
build and dedicate the monument, and to do all other things neces- 
sary to carry out the objects of the Association. 

Many designs for a soldiers' monument were submitted and the 
officers and the executive committee, after a great deal of investi- 
gation and inquiry adopted a design presented by the Smith Granite 
Company of Westerly, Ehode Island, it being found satisfactory 
in all respects. This design was suggested in part by the President 
of this Association, who devoted much time and thought to the 
subject. An illustration of the monument will be found in the 
frontispiece. 

Description of the monument: 

Size of base, 10 feet 6 inches x 14 feet ; 

'Height of base, 4 feet 3 inches ; 

Height of pedestal, 5 feet 9 inches; 

Height of column, 18 feet; 

Height of bronze globe, 2 feet; 

Height of bronze eagle, 2 feet; 

Total height, 32 feet. 

The column is 36 inches in diameter at the base and 26 inches 
at the top. 

The pedestal measures 46 inches at the base and 38 inches at 
the top. 

The bronze eagle stands two feet high and has a spread of wings 
of six feet. 

The bronze globe on which the eagle rests is 24 inches in diam- 
eter 

On the east side of the pedestal, resting on a die, is a life-sized 
figure of an infantry soldier, carved from white granite, in the act 
of taking a cartridge from his cartridge box to insert into the muz- 
zle of his musket, which he holds in position for that purpose. On 
the opposite side, resting on a die of the same size, is the figure of 
an artilleryman. This figure is represented as having raised his 
right hand to observe the effects of the last shot from the field piece 
which he is serving. Both of these figures are finely executed and 
are considered works of art. 




Capt. Alfred B. Beers, 6th Conn. Vols. 
Vice President Monument Association 





William E. Whittlesey 

Tenth Oonuecticut Volunteers 

Secretary Monument Association 



John T. Sloan 

First Connecticut Light Battery 
Treasurer Monument Association 



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Inscriptions 

On each side of the base of the monument a tablet is placed, 
bearing inscriptions as follows : 

North Side. 
Sixth Connecticut Volunteee Intantry. 

Organized September, 1861. Mustered Out August 

21, 1865. 

Total Number of Men who Served in tlie 

Regiment, 1608. 

Casualties, 877. 

Engagements : 

Port Royal, S. C; Fort Pulaski, Ga.; James Island, S. C; Pocotaligo, S.C; 

MoTris' Island, S. C; Fort Wagner, S. C; Chester Sta^o-'^Va.; 

Drewry's Bluff, Va.; Siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom, 

Va.; Deep Run, Va.; Chapin's Farms, Va.; Fort 

Fisher, N. C; Wilmington, N. C. 

And More than Twenty Other Minor Engagements and Affairs. 

Service : 
Army Corps Tenth and Twenty-Fourth. 

Departments : 

Department of the South, Army of the James, Department of 

North Carolina, Army of the Potomac. 

East Side. 
Seventh Connecticut Volunteers. 

Hawley's Brigade. 

Terry's Division. 

Tenth and Twenty-fourth Corps. 

Took part in 

Capture of Fort Pulaski, 

Capture of Fort Wagner, 

Demolition of Fort Sumter, 

and 
Thirteen other Engagements. 

Department of the South and Army of the James. 



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South Side. 

Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

In Grateful Memory of the Services and Sacrifices of our Heroic Dead 
who Offered Their Lives on the Altar of Constitutional Govern- 
ment and Human Liberty, this Tablet is Lovingly In- 
scribed by their Surviving Comrades of the 
Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. 

Total Number Enrolled, 1879 

Total Casualties, 1011. 

Number of Engagements, 51. 

Term of service, September 30, 1861, to September 2, 1865. 

Safe and Happy the Republic Whose Sons Gladly Die in Her Defense. 

West Side. 

First Connecticut Light Battery. 

Kno^vn as 

Rockwell's Battery. 

Mustered in October 26, 1861. 
Mustered out June 11, 1865. 

Participated in 

The Siege of Charleston 

And Other Battles in South Carolina, 

Fort Finnegan Florida, 

From January, 1862, to May, 1864. 

Engagements of Richmond 

And Petersburg Campaigns 

From May, 1864, to Lee's Surrender in 1865. 

The Tenth and Twenty-fourth Army Corps. 

There is a panel on the front of the pedestal on whieh is the 
following dedicatory inscription : 



members of the Executive eotntnlttee monument dissociation 





Edward G his wold 

First Caniiecticut Light Battery 



William H. Boutox 

Sixtli Connecticut Volunteers 





ViEGiL r. McNeil 
Seventh Connecticut Volunteeers 



Louis B. Buown 
Tenth Connecticut Volunteers 



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Erected 

By the Joint Contributions of 

The State of Connecticut 

AND 

The Veteran Associations 

OF 

The First Connecticut Light Battery 

And the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Regiments, 

Connecticut Volunteers, 

As A Sacred and Perpetual Memorial 

To THE Men who Suffered and Died 

That a Republic Might Live. 

1861-1865. 

Dedicated June 16, 190.5. 

The Dedicatory inscription on the monument was written by 
Capt. George W. Atherton, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers, presi- 
dent of Pennsylvania State College. 

As has been stated, the total height of the monument is thirty- 
two feet. 

The monument is protected by a handsome wrought iron fence. 

The Site 

The site first selected for the erection of the monument was the 
small park at the junction of Whitney avenue. Temple and Trum- 
bull streets, and permission to place the monument there was 
granted by the Board of Aldermen and approved by the Mayor. 
Subsequently, the site was changed to the small park at the jimc- 
tion of Broadway, Elm and Park streets. A petition signed by 
one hundred and fifty citizens, composed of business men and resi- 
dents living or doing business in the vicinity of this site, was pre- 
sented to the President of the Association, asking that the monu- 
ment be erected on that park. 

The Committee visited several sites which had been suggested, 
and after a careful study of the question decided to ask the Mayor 
and Board of Aldermen for a change of location of the monument 
from the Whitney Avenue Park to the Broadway Park, which wa& 
granted, and there the monument now stands. 



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The Executive Committee feel that it is but just to say that the 
success of the erection and dedication of this beautiful memorial is 
largely due to the earnest, enthusiastic and persistent efforts of 
General E. S. Greeley, the President of the Monument Association. 

The history of this monument would not be complete without 
mentioning the opposition that was manifested on the part of some 
very worthy citizens who appeared before the Committee of the 
Board of Aldermen appointed to hear the petitions for permission 
to erect this monument on the Whitney avenue site, and who, with 
other residents in the vicinity of the proposed site, signed and pre- 
sented to the Board of Aldermen a remonstrance against the erec- 
tion of a soldiers' monument on the park selected by the officers of 
the association. Without going into any further explanation, suf- 
fice it to say that the resolution granting the privilege to erect the 
monument on the Whitney Avenue Park was passed by an over- 
whelming majority and was immediately approved by the Mayor. 
But for reasons already stated, a change of site was asked for and 
granted. 

There is no doubt in the minds of the Executive Committee 
that the site finally selected is a more appropriate place than the 
one first chosen, irrespective of all other considerations. 

The cost of monument, tablets and erection of a protective 
fence, was six thousand dollars, for which the State appropriated 
four thousand dollars, and there was subscribed by the survivors 
of the four organizations two thousand dollars. The City of New 
Haven appropriated one thousand dollars toward the expense of 
dedicating the monument and about four hundred dollars was con- 
tributed by citizens of New Haven for the same purpose. The 
State also appropriated thirty-five hundred dollars, the expense 
occasioned by ordering out a portion of the National Guard to take 
part in the ceremonies. Credit is due Comrades Edward Griswold, 
Lieutenant W. H. H. Wooster, Stevens, Dickinson and other com- 
rades, members of the House and Senate, for their active help in 
securing this appropriation. 

The Parade 

There was great interest manifested by many thousands of the 
people to see the demonstration on the part of the military and the 
old veterans in line. 



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The streets on the line of march were lined on either side with 
interested spectators, while the windows of business houses and pri- 
vate residences were filled with men, women and children, whose 
faces indicated unusiial interest in the display. 

The Decorations. 

Everywhere along the route of the procession American flags 
and red, white and blue colors were displayed. In Broadway and 
the central portion of the city, the buildings were profusely deco- 
rated. Many buildings were completely covered with the na- 
tional colors and national emblems of various designs. Never 
since the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in East Eock Park 
in 1887 has there been such a display of decorations and enthusiasm 
on the part of the people as on this occasion. 

Broadway was the central point of interest. A finer display of 
decorations has never been seen in any part of the city than that in 
Broadway and Elm street in the vicinity of the park in which the 
monument is located. 

The procession took up the line of march at the time ordered, 
2 o'clock P. M., and arrived at the site of the monument at 3.30 
p. M., where the exercises connected with the dedication soon after 
commenced. 

Line of March 

The line of march was as follows : 

Temple to Chapel, to York, to Crown, to Church, to Chapel, to 
Olive, to State, to Trumbull, to Orange, to Grove, to Whitney 
Avenue, to Elm, to Broadway, to Howe, to Elm, to junction of 
Broadway, to monument. 

When the head of the column reached Broadway, a large con- 
course of people were found occupying almost every available spa<^e 
in Broadway, Elm and Park streets, extending to Howe street, and 
by the time the President of the Day, speakers and invited guests 
had taken their places on the platform, the entire space from High 
street to Howe street was occupied. It is estimated that at least 
twelve thousand people were assembled there. 



Cbe Tormation of (be Parade 

The parade formed in the following order: 
Platoon of Police. 
Major John Q. Tilson, Chief Marshal, and Staff. 

FIRST DIVISION. 

Second Infantry C. N. G., Col. Theodore H. Sucher commanding. 

Second Regiment Band. 

First Battalion, Second Infantry, C. N. G., Major Charles F. McCabe 

commanding. 
Comi^any I, Capt. 0. L. Bradley. 
Company D, Capt. E. L. Isbell. 
Company H, Capt. T. M. Russell. 
Company E, Capt. G. E. Hall. 
Second Battalion, Second Infantry, C. N. G., Capt. H. B. Carter com- 
manding. 
Company A, Lieut. C. H. Bangs. 
Company F, Capt. E. 0. Gruener. 
Company C, Capt. W. B. Spencer. 
Company N, Capt. W. E. Besse. 
Third Battalion, Second Infantry, C. N. G., INIajor Henry Norton, Jr., 

Commanding. 

Company G, Capt. D. E. Fitzpatrick. 

Company B, Capt. Frank Pauly. 

Company L, Josejjh DeCantillion. 

Company K, Capt. George C. Abbott. 

Medical Corps, C. N. G., Major J. H. ToA^-nsend commanding. 

First Separate Company, C. N. G., Capt. John W. Ross, Jr._, commanding. 

Signal Corps, C. N. G., Capt. E. H. Hotchkiss, commanding. 
Machine Gun Battery, C. N. G., Lieut. Robert G. Morley commanding. 
Naval Battalion. C. N. G., Commander F. S. Cornwall and Staff. 
First Division Naval Battalion, C. N. G.. Lieut. Clifford M. Peck com- 
manding. 
Troop A, C. N. G., Capt. Luzerne Ludington commanding. 
Foot Guard Band. 
Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, Major Smith G. Weed com- 
manding. 
His Excellency, Governor Henry Roberts, Staff and invited guests 

in carriages. 
First Carriage — His Excellency, Governor Henry Roberts; Hon. Morgan 
G. Bulkeley, United States Senator; Hon. John P. Studley, Mayor; Gen. 
E. S. Greeley, President of the Day. 

Second Carriage — Lieut. Governor R. S. Woodruff, Ex-Governor A. 
Chamberlain; Rev. Watson L. Phillips, D.D., Chaplain Second Co. Gov- 
ernor's Foot Guard; Rev. Newman Smyth, D.D. 



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Third Carriage — Brig.-Gen. George M. Cole, C. N. G., Adjutant General; 
Brig.-Gen. Russell Frost, C. N. G., Brigade Commander; Brig.-Gen. J. M. 
Thompson, U. S. A., retired; Capt. A. B. Beers, Vice President of Monu- 
ment Association. 

Fourth Carriage— Col. Theodore H. Macdonald, Q. M. General, C. N. G.; 
Col. O. C. Smith, Surgeon-General; Col. M. M. Downer, Commissary- 
General; Col. William E. F. Landers, Asst. Adj. -General. 

Fifth Carriage — Col. William H. Hall. Paymaster-General ; Col. James 
E. Cooper, Judge Advocate-General; Major Warren L. Hall, Aid-de-camp, 

Sixth Carriage — Major Samuel F. Beardsley, Aid-de-camp; Major Wal- 
ter L. Goodwin, Aid-de-camp; Lieut. Commander, J. L. Bunce, Naval Aid. 

Seventh Carriage — Hon. N. D. Sperry, Member of Congress, 2d Dist. ; 
Hon. Theodore Bodenwein, Secretary of State; Hon. James F. Walsh, 
State Treasurer; Prof. Henry Wade Rogers, Dean of Yale Law School. 

Eighth Carriage — Hon. A. W. Mitchell, Comptroller; Hon. W. A. 
King, Attorney-General; Hon. I. W. Birdseye; Hon. M. B. Beardsley. 

Ninth Carriage — Hon. Henry T. Blake, President Park Commission; 
Hon. H. H. Townsend, President Board of Aldermen; Hon. J. A. Howarth, 
Postmaster, New Haven. 

Tenth Carriage — Ex-Mayor A. C. Hendrick ; Comrade V. F. McNeil, 
Comrade William H. Bouton, Comrade Lewis B. Brown, Members of 
Executive Committee Monument Association. 

Eleventh Carriage — Hon. Edward Griswold, Member Executive Com- 
mittee; H. C. Sherwood; Esq.; George W. Warner, the Armless Soldier; 
L. B. Curtiss, Esq. 

Twelfth Carriage — Mr. Robert C. Lightbourn, Mr. Frank B. Thompson, 
Mr. Ralph S. Pagter, Mr. J. H. Campbell, Broadway Merchants' Com- 
mittee. 

Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Carriages — Disabled Veterans of 
the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut Volunteers and the G. A. R. 
Veterans. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

S. S. Thompson, Division Marshal, and Staff. 

Drum Corps. 

Department Commander, G. A. R., Albert A. May and Staff. 

City Band, twenty-five pieces. 

Veterans of the First Connecticut Light Battery, Sixth, Seventh and Tenth 

Connecticut Volunteers Veteran Association, 

Col. S. S. Atwell in command. 

Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, W. H. Bouton, President. 

Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, Thomas L. Norton, President. 

Tenth Connecticut Volunteers, Clayton H. Case, President. 

First Connecticut Light Battery, Edward Griswold, President. 

Drum Corps. 

Admiral Foote Post, No. 17, G. A. R., John M. Crowe, Commander. 

Henry C. Merwin Post, G. A. R., Philip Ryan, Commander. 

General von Steinwehr Post, G. A. R., Chris Rothhaar, Commander. 

Gideon Welles Naval Veterans' Association, William S. Wells, Captain. 

Other Veterans of the Civil War. 



Exercises at the Monument 

General E. S. Greeley, President of the Monument Association, 
presided and announced that the time for the dedicatory exercises 
had arrived. 

The Boys' Choir, consisting of 150 Boys from the public schools, 
arose and, by orders of Captain Jepson, late Tenth Connecticut 
Volunteers, presented flags to the presiding officer. The salute 
being acknowledged by him, the exercises were commenced by the 
Boys' Choir singing "The Eed, Wliite and Blue." 

President Greeley : Reverend Doctor Newman Smyth will now 
invoke the divine blessing. 

Invocation 

Lord God of Hosts, we offer to Thee thanksgivings and praise 
for the peace for which our comrades died, which we lived to hail, 
and which came at last to stay over our whole free land. We thank 
Thee that the shouts of victory linger to-day only in the soldier's 
memory, while for all the people the blessing of union and liberty 
abides. Beneath Thine open heaven we dedicate this monument 
to patriotism and liberty. We consecrate it in the memories of that 
baptism of fire in which brave men gave their lives to country and 
to God. Keep Thou in Thine eternal remembrance all their sacri- 
fice. Guard in Thy righteousness the land for which they died. 
Protect from foes without, and from wasting evils within, our 
country's priceless heritage. Uphold and guide our presidents, 
governors, and all in authority over us. Bind all parties, sections 
and classes together in one high calling as a nation, in a common 
prosperity, and in one great humanity, for the hope of all peoples, 
and to the glory of Thy Name, forevermore. Amen. 

General Edwin S. Greeley, Colonel Tenth Connecticut Volun- 
teers, President of the Monument Association, then made the fol- 
lowing introductory address: 

Your Excellency, Comrades and Fellow- C itizens : 

We are gathered here to-day to dedicate a soldier's monument, 
erected in honor of the heroic dead and to perpetuate the gallant 
deeds performed by the officers and men of the First Connecticut 
Light Battery, the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut Volun- 



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teer Infantry, four organizations of which the State may well be 
proud, for they made a record in the War of the Eebellion second to 
none from any State in the Union. 

This beautiful shaft has been erected in this city rather than 
upon the battlefields upon which they fought, because their fields 
of operations occupied a long range of territory, extending from 
Virginia on the north to Florida on the south, covering a half a 
hundred battlefields, but they were not engaged on the great bat- 
tlefields where national cemeteries have been established. It was 
not the fortune of any of the organizations represented by this 
memorial to take part in the battle of Chancellorsville, but they 
were at Eoanoke Island, Newbern and Goldsboro. They were not 
at Antietam, but they were at James and Morris Island and the 
reduction of Fort Sumter and the capture of Forts Gregg and 
Wagner, the defenses of Charleston. 

They were not at Vicksburg or Chattanooga, but they were in 
the Siege of Eichmond and Petersburg. They were not in the 
Wilderness and Cold Harbor, but they were at Fort Fisher and 
Appomatox Court House, and hence it seemed fitting to build a 
monument in the City of New Haven, where the living veterans of 
the Battery and Eegiments and the friends of the dead heroes would 
have the opportrmity of seeing it. 

It is also a fitting place to erect this memorial here because a 
large number of the members of these four organizations volun- 
teered from this city. Several entire companies in these infantry 
regiments went from this city and many members of the battery. 

We are gratified to find the people of this goodly city so deeply 
interested in this affair, as evinced by your presence here to-day in 
such vast numbers, and we thank you for your presence and encour- 
agement. It is not my purpose to make any extended remarks or 
attempt to tell you what each particular organization did, but will 
introduce an actor from each to give a brief outline of the services 
of his Eegiment or Battery. 

Song— 'The Star Spangled Banner," by the Boys' Choir. 

President Greeley : The first speaker I shall introduce will be 
Hon. Edward Griswold, who will speak for the First Connecti- 
cut Battery, of which a distinguished general officer said : ''There 
may be as good a battery in the service, but it is the best I have ever 
seen." 



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Address of Hon. Edward Griswold, First Connecticut Light 

Battery. 

Mr. President, Comrades and Fellow-Citizens: 

A few moments have been assigned to me to give a brief history 
of the organization of which it was my glorious privilege to have 
been a member — the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers. 
This was not the organization that did all the fighting and saved 
the Union, but we have always had the satisfaction of knowing that 
we did our part of that glorious work. This battery was mustered 
into the United States service in October, 1861, with 15G officers 
and men, and was sent to the Department of the South, where we 
served two years. We were in active service in that department, 
and participated in the encounters with tlie enemy in the States of 
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. We were sent on many 
expeditions and raids, had many shirmishes with the enemy, and 
were in the hotly contested battles on James Island in 1S62 and 
1863, and in the Siege of Charleston, where we witnessed day and 
night for so long a time the bombardment of Fort Sumter and 
Charleston. 

Early in 1864: we were sent to Virginia and became a part of 
the Army of the James. From May 6, 186-4, until the close of the 
war there was not really an hour when we were not within the range 
of the enemy's guns. We participated in the battles of Chester 
Station, Eichmond Turnpike, Proctor's Creek, Drewry's Blulf, Ber- 
muda Hundred, Grover House, Ware Bottom Church, Strawberry 
Plains, Four Mile Creek, Deep Bottom, Siege of Petersburg, Cha- 
pin's Farm, John's Farm, Darbytown Eoad, Deep Eun, Fort Har- 
rison and the Fall of Eichmond. We participated in scores of 
skirmishes; we were called to fire over skirmishers, support pickets 
or for purposes where only one or two guns were needed. In no 
case did we ever, as a battery, receive the censure of a commanding 
officer, but on many occasions have had words of praise for our 
gallant conduct. We take pride in the fact that we served under 
the greatest military chieftain the world has ever seen, in the great- 
est campaign the world has ever known, and that we served in an 
army that accomplished the greatest results ever known in human 
history. 

Our battery always did what we were ordered to, and that is the 
first duty of a soldier — to obey. But what of the officers and men 



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of this organization? They came from all parts of the State; 
many of them had waited for the organization of a light battery ; 
we believe that no better set of men served in the Civil War. The 
world has learned in later years that success in war depends largely 
npon the men behind the guns. These were the real men behind 
the guns. Our officers were faithful and efficient. Time will not 
permit me to go into detailed description of our different officers. 
I will only speak of one. Captain Alfred P. Eockwell, who was 
appointed by Governor Buckingham, was the son of Senator John 
A. Eockwell of Xorwich. When he was appointed he was drill- 
ing regular batteries under General Barry, chief of artillery, at 
Washington. He had been highly educated in the scientific schools 
of this and other countries. He proved to be an efficient artillery 
officer, and to him are we greatly indebted for the efficient and 
favoral:)le history of the battery. It is generally admitted that he 
was not excelled by any artillery officer in the regular or volunteer 
service. We have every reason to believe that a kind and Overrul- 
ing Providence sent him to us, and that by his wisdom and courage 
the lives of many of his men were saved. He always placed his bat- 
tery not only where it could do the best execution, but, where pos- 
sible, took advantage of rolling ground to protect his men. When 
he got the range he would keep up an accurate and rapid fire that 
would confuse the enemy, and it was these things that saved us 
from great loss of life. He was honest, courageous, just and com- 
petent, and after leaving the battery was promoted to colonel and 
then to brevet brigadier for gallant and meritorious service. He 
died a little over a year ago very suddenly while visiting friends m 
your city, l)eloved and mourned by the members of his old com- 
mand. 

One word for the organizations consolidated with ours in the 
erection of this beautiful monument. Long have we jointly 
worked for what to-day is completed. Two of these organizations 
were practically with us from the first to the last, in the same 
corps, and most of the time in the same division and l)rigade. The 
other was with us in the last two years of the war. Their record is 
among the \evy highest of any regiment of the war. The first 
thought of an artilleryman when ordered into action is, what regi- 
ment or regiments are to support us ? It was always pleasing and 
satisfactory to us when it was either of these named regiments; 
they never failed us, nor we them. Connecticut can well be proud 



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of the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth regiments — no better were in the 
service. 

And noAv we meet here to dedicate this monument, not to our- 
selves, for our names are not there, but we put this here, distinct in 
purpose, a reminder to you and the generations to come that men 
went forth voluntarily to fight for their country and gave their 
lives for the country they loved To the young people before me 
I would say, when you look at this enduring monument be reminded 
of the great sacrifice made for you and me, and believe that you can 
read upon this monument those words that mean so much, that are 
all that is inscribed upon that beautiful monument in the cemetery 
at Antietam, "Not for themselves, but for their country." 

The President: The next regiment to which I call attention 
will be the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, who gave the country 
a Terry and a Hawley, a regiment whose gallant deeds have become 
historic. Comrade Thomas L. Norton will speak for the Seventh. 

Address of Thomas L. Noetox, Seventh Connecticut 
Volunteers. 

Mr. President, Comrades and Friends : 

Once more, and probably for the last time, a remnant of Terry's 
old division of the Tenth Army Corps touch elbows and look into 
each other's faces, as of yore. 

I see before me the men who at Pulaski, James Island, Poco- 
taligo, Morris Island, Olustee, Bermuda Hundred, Drewry's Bluff, 
Deep Bottom, Petersburg, Fort Fisher and on other fields, bore the 
ensigns of the State, sometimes forward to victory, sometimes back- 
ward in defeat, but never, thank God, never in dishonor. 

May we not believe, my comrades, that there is with us to-day, 
also, a mighty though invisible host of that grand division, led, as 
no other coidd lead, by that gallant gentleman and knightly soldier 
of the Seventh Connecticut, Alfred H. Terry? Long since passed 
from our poor mortal vision, he has never faded from memory's 
sight. How proud the regiment was of him. How we gloried in 
his promotions, Imowing that not a single leaf of all his laurels was 
unearned or undeserved. How we used to boast that no major- 
general of the Eegular Army ever gained that high rank from the 
vohmteer service saving only Alfred H. Terry. How natural it 



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was to apply to our Chevalier Bayard the words of Shakespeare : 
"His life was gentle and all the elements so mixed in him that 
nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'this is a man.' " 

And is there not here the presence of another great hearted 
soldier at the head of his old regiment? The years roll away and 
we see him as we saw him three and forty years ago this very day, 
my comrades, at James Island ; we see once more that martial stride, 
that port and bearing as of a veritable son of Mars; we hear once 
more ring out the masterful voice, ''Attention, Battalion! Forward 
march!" and the Seventh springs to arms, glad to follow wherever 
"Joe" Hawley leads the way. 

These men were ours. We loaned them to other spheres of 
duty retaining still our claim to them. We loaned Terry to a 
brigade, a division, the Eegular Army, but we never dismissed him 
from our membership. We loaned Hawley to the Centennial Com- 
mission, to the Governor's chair, to the House of Eepresentatives, 
to the Senate of the United States, but we claimed him as our own 
until that dreary day in March when he received his final promo- 
tion Then we were forced to say of him as we had said of Terry 
and Rodman, Hitchcock and Sanford, Chamberlain, Merriam and 
the other heroes, using the words of Stanton when Lincoln breathed 
his last, "Now he belongs to the ages." 

In the presence of this encompassed cloud of witnesses and 
speaking for the survivors of the Seventh Connecticut, who stand 
on the borderland of the great unknown, we gratefully accept from 
the Commonwealth of Connecticut and from our friends our share 
of this memorial, praying God that long after we shall have 
crumbled into dust, this towering shaft shall tell our children's 
children to latest generations, that one republic is not ungrateful, 
that on Connecticut soil at least, valor, patriotism and loyalty shall 
in no wise fail of their reward. 

President Greeley : And now, comrades, we will hear something 
about that regiment" of whom a distinguished major-general of the 
Eeo-ular Army said, after the charge and capture of a rebel redoubt 
at Kingston, North Carolina, "If I had a full corps composed of 
officers and men like the Tenth Connecticut, I would march them 
from the Potomac to the Mississippi." I have the pleasure to 
introduce Comrade Lewis B. Bro^^'n, Company K, Tenth Connecti- 
cut Volunteers. 



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Addeess of Corporal Lewis B. Brown, Company K, Tenth 

Connecticut Volunteers. 

Mr. President, Your Excellency, Your Honor the Mayor, Com- 
rades and Fellow-Citizens: 

To be selected to speak for and represent the old Tenth Connec- 
ticut with its grand record of service and sacrifice, on an occasion 
of this kind, is an honor of which any man may well be proud ; but 
to attempt to give even a partial history of the heroic deeds and 
terrible sufferings of such a regiment in the short time at my dis- 
posal, is simply impossible. 

The regiment was mustered into the service of the United 
States at Hartford, September 30, 1861, and immediately sent 
to the front, taking part in the famous Burnside Expeditions — 
the experiences of which during that terrible storm off Hatteras 
will never be forgotten; then followed the battle of Eoanoke Island. 
In this, their first l)aptism of blood, the regiment fought like vet- 
erans, losing its gallant colonel, Charles L. Eussell, and fifty-six 
of its bravest from the right wing — the heaviest loss of any regi- 
ment engaged. Again, at Newbern, the regiment distinguished 
itself for steadiness and efficiency under fire, losing twenty-seven 
killed and wounded. At Kingston, December 14, 1862, the regi- 
ment, on account of its shattered condition, was held in reserve, 
until several regiments had attempted to carry the enemy's posi- 
tion at the bridge over the Neuse Elver, defended by a brigade of 
infantry and a four gun battery on a hill, and were repu.lsed. Then 
the Tenth was puslied to the front, passing on its way an entire 
brigade and charging over two regiments lying down in line of 
battle, drove the enemy from its position, carried the bridge, cap- 
tured five hundred prisoners and eleven pieces of artillery, with a 
loss of one hundred and six killed and wounded. 

After this battle, General J. G. Foster of the Eegular Army, in 
command of the Department of North Carolina, said that if he 
had one army corps of such troops as the Tenth Connecticut, he 
could sweep the whole country from the Potomac to the Mississippi. 

The regiment also took a prominent part in the Siege of Charles- 
ton, being under fire from July 18 to October 25, 1863— continu- 
ously under fire — making the celebrated midnight attack on Fort 
Sumter, and in all of its fifty-one battles from Eoanoke to Appo- 
matox, receiving the commendation of the generals under whom 



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it served. After Appomatox, at Eiclimond, Va., June 16, 1865, 
the regiment was presented through its colonel, now our president, 
General E. S. Greeley, with a beautiful Ijronze eagle, to be placed 
upon the staff of its national colors as a mark of special distinction, 
bearing this inscription : 

'Tresented to the Tenth Connecticut Volun- 
teers by Major-General John Gibbon, U. S. A., 
commanding the Twenty-Fourth Army Corps, 
for gallant conduct in the assault on Fort Gregg, 
Petersburg, April 2, 1865." 

Xo word of praise from me can tell the story of this noted 
regiment better than the official record of the War Department. 

Total number of men on its rolls, . . 1776 
Total number of casualties, . . . • 1011 
Total number of engagements, ... 51 

This briefly is the record of one of the organizations from our 
State. We glory in its record and are proud of every man who 
bore a part in that glorious struggle for humanity and the rights 

of man. 

This beautiful monument is dedicated to the heroic dead of the 
First Light Battery and the Sixth, Seventh and 10th Connecticut 
Volunteers. Comrades, we of the Tenth are proud of our company, 
for when weighed in the balance you were never found wanting. 

The State of Connecticut has often expressed its pride in the 
record made by its sons. Your Excellency, the members of the old 
Tenth are proud to have had the privilege of acceptably serving the 
grand old commonwealth of Connecticut, and if in the future, 
should either traitors at home or foreign foes threaten the honor 
of our State or offer insult to Old Glory, you can safely depend 
upon the old Tenth even to its last survivor. 

The President: And last but not least you will have a brief 
story of the services of that Grand Old Eegiment, led by the 
brave and gallant Chatfield, who received his mortal wound lead- 
ing that terrible charge on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, the Glori- 
ous Sixth Connecticut. It gives me pleasure to introduce Captain 
A. B. Beers of the Sixth, who represents that regiment to-day. 



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Address op Capt. Alfred B. Beers, Co, B, Sixth Connecticut 

Volunteers. 

Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

The Sixth Connecticut Yolunteers was the third three years 
regiment organized in the State of Connecticut for the war for the 
Union. Its first colonel was John L. Chatfield of Waterbury, who 
was commissioned August 22, 1861. He was unusually well versed 
in military affairs, a superior tactician; a kind but firm disicplin- 
arian; a brave and gallant officer, who always led instead of fol- 
lowed his command in action, and who was more zealous in the 
preservation of the rights of his soldiers than of his own rights as 
an officer. He was twice wounded in action, the last time at Fort 
Wagner, South Carolina, on Jul}^ 18, 1863, where he gave up the 
command of a brigade to lead his regiment in what proved to be a 
forlorn hope, and in which engagement he received a fatal wound 
and died beloved and mourned by all who knew him. 

The regiment was practically a city regiment, having among its 
1,008 officers and men three companies from New Haven, two from 
Bridgeport, one from Hartford, one from Waterbury, one from 
Stamford, one from New Britain and one from Putnam. The 
term of its State and National service extended from August, 1861, 
to August, 1865, covering su])stantially four years, during which 
time it received 600 recruits, which added to the 1,008 officers and 
men with which it left the State in September, 1861, made a total 
of 1,608 men who saw service in its ranks during the war. Its 
casualties during its four years of service numbered 877, being 
more than fifty-four per cent, of its membership. Its operations 
covered a wide stretch of territory, embracing the District of 
Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia and Florida. 

It participated in the first expedition and engagement of con- 
sequence after Bull Kun, namely, the Sherman expedition of 1861, 
and the bombardment and capture of Hilton Head, South Carolina, 
and jointly with the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, was the first 
Union force to land on the shores of South Carolina. During the 
four years it participated in more than thirty engagements and 
affairs in five different States, the more important of which were the 
bombardment and capture of Hilton Head, S. C; Fort Pulaski, 




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Ga. ; charge on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C. ; actions near 
Bermuda Hundred, Va. ; Siege of Petersburg, Va. ; actions near 
Eichmond, Va., 1864 ; assault and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C, 
and Wilmington, N. C, and was with General Sherman in North 
Carolina when the war was practically closed by the surrender of 
the last great Confederate Army under Johnston. 

It had as regimental commanders the brave aud gallant Chat- 
field, Eedfield A. Duryea, a careful and conscientious officer, and 
Alfred P. Eockwell, who was the last colonel, and who possessed all 
the attributes of a good officer, and was highly respected for his 
bravery, high character, integrity and devotion to the interests of 
his command. It served consecutively under those great com- 
manders, Generals T. W. Sherman, Gilmore, Butler, Grant, our 
own gallant Terry, and General William T. Sherman. During all 
its years of service its gallant men never shrank from any call of 
duty, no mater how dangerous or hazardous the task ; no command- 
ing officer ever criticised its conduct under fire, and it never hesi- 
tated or wavered in the performance of the duty which at times of 
awful carnage and death devolved upon it. It proudly carried its 
colors. State and National, to the front in 1861, and as proudly 
returned them to the State in 1865, battle-scarred and storm- 
beaten, baptized by the blood of their bearers, of whom seven were 
killed in one engagement, never lowering or surrendering to the 
•enemy the standards of their regiment. 

Thus briefly, and more briefly and less eloquently than I could 
wish, do I relate the history and services of the Sixth Connecticut 
Volunteers. 

Monument Unveiled. 

George W. Warner, an armless veteran of the Civil War, then 
unveiled the monument. The string which held the flag cov- 
ering was tied to a small flag, and as he slowly moved this with his 
teeth the monument was brought to public view. He carried the 
flag held in his teeth to the platform and presented it to General 
Greeley. 

Comrade Warner lost both his arms by the bursting of a shell on 
the battlefield of Gettysburg. It was at the time of Pickett's charge 
on the last day of fighting on the Gettysburg field. Fragments of a 
shell inflicted such wounds in his arms that both had to be ampu- 
tated. 



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Monument Presented. 

Captain Beers at this point in eloijuent words, ringing with 
patriotic ardor, said : 

And now. Governor Roberts, it is my pleasing duty, in behalf 
of the First Connecticut Light Battery, the Sixth, Seventh and 
Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Association, to deliver to 
the State of Connecticut, represented by your Excellency as the 
honored chief magistrate of the State, this monument, erected by 
the joint contributions of the State and the Association to com- 
memorate the valor, patriotism and heroic services of the officers 
and men of the organizations named thereon. 

The men who once marched and fought under the bamiers of 
these organizations gloried in the fact that in the days when the 
very life of the nation was in peril and every State was called upon 
to do its part in protecting and defending the national integrity 
and unity, they were citizens of Connecticut, and that their service 
was under the flag of this State as well as the flag of the Union, and 
whatever they did, or were instrumental in doing, in achieving the 
grand results that have come from the successful issue of that great 
conflict, was to the honor and glory of the State of Connecticut, 
as well as to that of the United States of America. 

Who can adequately portray in words the patriotism, loyalty, 
bravery, and self-sacrificing devotion of the officers and men of 
these regiments and battery to the cause of the Union during those 
four long 3'ears of war, when men experienced hardships untold, 
painful disease, suffered grievous wounds and loss of limb, and gave 
up their lives by the hundreds of thousands in the hospital, the 
prison pen, and in the awful shock of Ijattle that we might enjoy 
the blessings of free institutions and a united country? May 
yonder monument with its enduring tablets of bronze stand for all 
generations to come as a silent pledge, more eloquent than words, 
that the patriotism and sacrifices of those whose deeds and services 
it commemorates will not be forgotten l\y a loyal and liberty loving 
people. 

We, the few scattered survivors of the thousands who once 
proudly marched imder the flags of these organizations and who 
cannot in the mutations of time expect to much longer remain to 
enjoy the fruit of our labors, commit to tlie State of Connecticut 
the care and custody of this monument, knowing that the State 



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whose honor we upheld in the crucial period of our country's his- 
tory, will uphold and protect the honor and the memory of its 
citizen soldiers in the future as it has always done in the past. 
May this shaft be an object lesson in loyalty to the rising genera- 
tion; may its presence strengthen the spirit of patriotism in every 
citizen who beholds it; and may it help to inculcate such a love for 
our country and devotion to its free institutions in the hearts of our 
people, that our nation, when in need, shall never want for brave 
and patriotic defenders. 

The President : We are honored to-day by the presence of His 
Excellency, the Chief Magistrate of this State, who has graced 
this occasion by his presence. He will accept this monument on 
the part of the State and transmit it to the custody of His Honor 
the Mayor. 

Address of His Excellency, Governor Henry Eoberts. 

Mr. President, Your Honor the Mayor, Veterans and Friends: 

The record of the Battery and Eegiments in whose commemora- 
tion we are dedicating this memorial to-day is replete with acts of 
bravery, patriotism and distinguished service. It fell to the lot 
of these troops, with the exception of the Battery, to be associated 
for the most part during the Civil War in the same engagements, 
and they continued loyal and active in the Federal cause till the 
close of the war. 

The battles in which they fought included Port Eoyal, Bermuda 
Hundred, Petersburg, Appomatox and Eichmond— and other en- 
gagements which I will not note— in all of which they bore their 
full share of hard fighting and were commended for their courage 
and endurance. The roll listed such distinguished names as Chat- 
field, Terry, Hawley, Eodman, Eussell, Drake, Greeley, Camp, Coit 
and others in rank and file equally brave and courageous. 

Of the action of the men of the Seventh in the engagement at 
Fort Wagner the general commanding announced, "the Seventh 
Connecticut has covered itself with glory;" and of the Sixth in the 
same siege one has written : 

"Friend and foe alike now as then must honor and 
salute them as the bravest of the brave." 

"The history of the war, rife with desperate conflicts, 
can show no more terrific strife than this. It was in 
more than one particular a battle of giants." 



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And of the service of the Tenth it was said : 

"For steady and soldierly beliavior they may have been 
equaled, but never surpassed. Under galling fire not a 
man spoke a word or moved a heel from the alignment." 

Of the Battery. General Terry spoke as follows : 

"I -vrill not say it was the best battery in the service, 
but I will say it was the best I have ever seen.'" 

Such, my fellow-citizens, were some of the encomiums bestowed 
upon the brave and loyal men of these commands and such the 
legacy which they hand down to us of their fidelity and heroism, 
and to them and the thousands of their associates we are indebted 
to-day for safeguarding our liberties, for the rescue from thralldom 
of a million slaves, for the preservation of our Union, for a now 
united country, for much of our progress as a nation, for inspiring 
patriotic and loyal purposes in our youth — so that ever}' child bom 
under the Stars and Strips is taught from their example the love 
of country. 

Coimecticut may well feel proud of the record and services of 
all her regiments in the Civil "War, for all were quick in response to 
duty and faithful and devoted to the Federal cause. As soon as the 
call for troops had been issued tliis little commonwealth responded 
by placing in Washington the first regiment to arrive in answer to 
Lincoln's summons 

"We cannot fulfill a more important and praiseworthy obliga- 
tion, nor one fraught with so many valuable lessons for the future 
generations than the erection of these monuments in memory of 
the honored and heroic dead and living of the Civil "War. May 
their acts teach us all the value of loyal, patriotic service for our 
country and may they assist us to devote ourselves in times of peace 
to the same noble purposes which ever characterized them. 

Gentlemen of the Association, I accept on behalf of the State 
this ornate and beautiful column, and congratulate you on this 
most fitting and satisfactory result of your efforts. 

And now, Your Honor, it is also my great privilege to place in 
the care of the City of Xew Haven this memorial which will ever 
be an ornament to this municipality and an inspiration to high 
incentive and resolve. You will cherish and preserve it and point 



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to it with pride as a grateful testimonial to the valuable and dis- 
tinguished achievements of these Connecticut Volunteers, ever 
remembering that the commonwealth, which has assisted in its 
erection, has a share Avith you in commemorating the glory and 
legacy which these patriots have bequeathed to this commonwealth. 

Address by Mayor John P. Studley. 

Your Excellency, on behalf of the people of New Haven I thank 
you for the honor you have done them in presenting this beautiful 
monument dedicated to the memory of Connecticut soldiers who 
gave their lives for their country. The people of New Haven have 
ever been patriotic. They have sprung from a patriotic ancestry. 
They love their country and its institutions, its constitution and its 
flag, its history and its traditions. And, whenever war has come 
they have been among the first to volunteer in defense. A host of 
them have sacrificed life and limb for their coimtry's cause. 

It follows that such a people must ever revere the memory of 
their heroic dead. And while they honor the dead to-day, it is also 
their pleasure to recognize and to welcome the living who have 
assembled here from many towns and villages of the State to assist 
in dedicating the monument. Among them New Haven is proud 
to honor General Edwin S. Greeley, who by his bravery and ability 
won the command of a regiment and then of a brigade. 

Near this shaft are the magnificent buildings of our great uni- 
versity, and the buildings of our high schools where hundreds of 
young men and women are educated. To these young people while 
learning the history of their country and its defenders, and indeed, 
to the community as a whole, this monument will always silently 
plead the cause of liberty and humanity. It must inspire in the 
hearts of generations to come a higher patriotism than they might 
otherwise know. 

And the choice of this location is a particularly happy one in 
that it is historical. For a British army once invaded New Haven 
from the westward, and as they marched down Broadway they were 
opposed on this very square by citizen soldiery, and one citizen was 
killed and several were wounded. 

How fitting, then, that this monument, which commemorates 
the heroism of our Civil War Volunteers, is placed on soil bathed 



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by the blood of their forefathers, shed in defense of their homes and 
their firesides. 

"They fell devoted, but undying; 

The very gale their names seemed sighing; 

The waters murmured of their name; 

The woods were peopled with their fame; 

The silent pillar, lone and gray. 

Claimed kindred with their sacred clay. 

Their spirits wrapped the dusky mountain, 

Their memory sparkled o'er the fountain; 

The meanest rill, the mightiest river, 

Roll'd mingling with their fame forever." 

It is a personal pleasure to me to accept this monument on 
behalf of the City of New Haven, and, as Mayor, I pledge Your 
Excellency for our people, that they will ever guard and cherish 
it as a patriotic shrine. 

Song — ''Union Dixie," Boys' Choir. 

Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley was the next speaker on the pro- 
gram, but did not respond to his name when announced by Presi- 
dent Greeley. It was subsequently discovered that he had left the 
ground before his name was called. 

The Chairman: The next speaker needs no introduction from 
me to a New Haven audience, for he never fails to interest his 
audiences, no matter upon what subject he speaks. He will speak 
to-day of "The Meaning of the Monument." I present the Eev. 
Dr. Watson L. Phillips, Chaplain of the Second Company Govern- 
or's Foot Guard. 

Address, "The Meaning of the Monument/' Eev. Dr. W. L. 
Phillips, Chaplain Second Company Governor's Foot 
Guard 

Mr. President and Veterans of Terry's Division : 

This day's celebration has a peculiar and significant interest for 
the members of the Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, be- 
cause Company K of the Sixth Eegiment was largely recruited 
from that command. The names you reverence are illustrious on 
our roster; we are glad to join with you in this service of dedica- 
tion. 



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It is a privilege and an honor to stand before this stately monu- 
ment, which gratitude and a worthy pride have moved you to build, 
and look into the faces of men who understand as you do what 
loyalty means and who are to this generation the exponents of the 
highest ideals of patriotism. 

Venerable as I may seem to the youth assembled here, it is still 
true that the men of my generation came too late to march and 
fight with you. That fact reminds us how far off the great strug- 
gle is— yet how real it still is to every man whose memory carries 
back to the middle of the last century ! Under the shadow of this 
splendid memorial, with these veterans around us, this June day of 
1905 seems to fade from our vision and we are transported to those 
strenuous years of the Civil War. We hear again the stirring 
speeches and witness the enthusiasm of the enlistment meetings; 
the summoning bugle sounds in the streets, we see the firm blue 
lines moving under the flag to the preparation camp and the points 
of embarkation for the front ; the eager, sad-eyed throng crowds the 
line of march, we hear the huzzas and the farewells. Again we 
gather about some wounded hero, home on furlough, who recounts 
the scenes of camp, and march, and battlefield ; the muffled drum 
beat smites our hearts as the torn body of some dead soldier is 
escorted to its rest in the village burying ground ; we know once 
more the anxiety, the watching, the fear, the final gladness— glad- 
ness that so soon was changed to sobs as we heard the awful tidings, 
"Mr. Lincoln was shot last night !" 

Veterans! we salute you as the representatives of that great 
time, survivors of the proud regiments that went forth with meas- 
ured tread and steadfast hearts, and returned broken, decimated, 
but victorious, henceforth to wear the crown of our gratitude and 
veneration. Appropriating the thought of the great Lincoln, we 
remind ourselves that men will little heed nor long remember what 
we say here, but they will never forget what you and your comrades 
did in the years and on the fields which this monument commem- 
orates. 

It is a beautiful custom, sanctioned by time and the usage of all 
civilized peoples, that builds monuments to the memory of great 
events and illustrious men. But American gratitude has taken a 
step in advance and remembers the men in the ranks. There was 



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little danger that the leaders be forgotten, there was danger that the 
names of private soldiers and subordinate officers fade from our 
memories. These monuments are not erected in the interests of 
pretentious pride, but in the interests of accurate history; thou- 
sands of names on soldiers' monuments in this land preserve the 
record of men who fell at the front, or suffered the slow martyrdom 
of prison and hospital, or returned quietly to resume their ordinary 
vocations. Thus the common soldier has his recognition and his 
honor. These stones mean our acceptance of the doctrine of the 
rights of man, that worthy men, men who did their duty, are re- 
membered by the public though they won no rank and wore no 
insignia of high authority. 

This eagle, poised ahove the artilleryman watching the effect 
of his last sliot, and the infantryman reaching for another cartridge, 
presents a suggestive symbolism. It is not bombast to affirm that 
the eagle does represent the free flight and the keen watchfulness 
of America, scanning every realm, seizing every opportunity, or that 
these alert soldiers declare how the coolest courage and the best 
science have been united in gaining our victories. While we rejoice 
in the scientific achievements which have given us in each crisis the 
best appliances within the reach of human genius, to-day we are 
celebrating the "man behind the gun'' whose intelligent obedience, 
calm courage, alertness, and faith in the republic have given these 
scientific appliances their highest efficiency in actual use. 

Such memorials are perpetual teachers of the patriotism, the 
courage, the unselfish devotion which you revealed in the hour of 
need, also of the lofty character of your foes, for had they not been 
brave men, you could not have shown such valor nor won such 
distinction. The renown of soldiers is measured by the quality 
of the foes they had to encounter and the difficulties of the situa- 
tion with which they had to contend. So these monuments stand 
in the busy ways of men forever bearing a message to the people; 
that message is, "American manhood, whether clad in blue or gray, 
is the most precious possession of the republic !" These stones 
remind our youth of the price the fathers paid for union and peace, 
and that they were worth the price; they declare the faith of the 
American people that we are not a mere confederation of independ- 
ent and unrelated States, but a nation guaranteeing freedom to 
every man under the flag; they reaffirm our love of peace won in 



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defense of the right. That doctrine, the brave man who sits in 
the White House, himself a soldier, emphasized when he secured 
the establishment of the Hague Tribunal and an international 
acceptance of the doctrine of peaceful arbitration, and is empha- 
sizing again to-day, amidst the plaudits of the whole civilized 
world, as he leads Japan and Eussia to peace negotiations. 

Veterans ! you are nearing the end of the long march ; soon you 
will be missed from the accustomed places, but you will not be 
forgotten. Generations will come and go, the war will be only a 
matter of history, but through the years this monument will stand 
to tell the story of your faith, and valor, and sacrifice, and under 
its shadow future Americans will gather to speak of you and to 
renew their pledges to the government you helped to save. 

The President: Finally, Comrades and Friends, it is my pleas- 
ure to introduce a gentleman who has not long been a resident of 
our city, but he has captivated every audience to whom he has 
spoken, by his eloquence and lofty ideals. Professor Henry Wade 
Eogers, Dean of Yale Law School, will speak of the "Heroic Dead." 

Address of Professor Henry Wade Eogers, Dean of Yale 
Law School. 

Mr. President, Veterans of the Civil War, and Gentlemen: 

Forty years have passed since the hostile bugles "sang truce'* 
and Lee yielded his army and his sword to Grant at Appomatox. 
Since the great armies of the Civil War were mustered out no foe 
on American soil has fired upon the flag. The birds in the South- 
ern forests have sung their songs and been undisturbed by the 
missiles of war. The palmetto and magnolia of the Carolinas, the 
holly of the James, the long mosses of the Florida forests, once 
swept by the shot and shell of contending armies, have since been 
stirred only by the gentle breezes of peace. So may it be forever. 

If the forty years since Appomatox were ten times forty, the 
memories of what transpired between 1861 and 1865 would still be 
in the thoughts of men. The splendid deeds of heroic souls never 
fade from the memory of the race. 

On June 17, 1887, New Haven, with troops marching, bands 
playing, colors flying, and cannon booming, dedicated a soldiers' 



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monument. Sherman, who marched from x^.tlanta to the sea, was 
here that day. So was Sheridan of the Shenandoah Valley, who 
rode from Winchester, "Twenty miles away." 

"Sheridan, Sheridan, Cavalry Sheridan! 
Him of the horses and sabres I sing. 

Look how he drove them! 

Look how he clove them, 
Sabred, belabored, confused and confounded, astoiinded 

At the fierce stride and swing 

Of our men galloping, 
Shouting with vengeance, roaring with laughter, 
Cheering with victory, as they plunged after 
Sheridan, Sheridan, Cavalry Sheridan." 

General Terry and "Joe" Hawley, noble sons of a proud State, 
were here. Of the great commanders, Grant alone was absent. He 
had passed into the unseen two years before, and was with Lincoln 
and Washington and the immortals. 

To-day we dedicate another soldiers' monument. Once more 
our streets resound with the tramp of marching men. Again we 
hear the boom of cannon, the rattle of musketry, the stirring sounds 
of pealing drum and clashing horn. We have looked upon the 
colors carried at the head of the marching battalions. We have 
seen the drawn swords as they glistened in the sun. Our citizens 
have witnessed again war's pomp and pageantry. But Sherman 
and Sheridan, Terry and Hawley, are not with us now. They have 
joined with Grant the "serried saint-like ranks" of those who stand 
on fame's eternal camping ground. It may be that somewhere 
beyond the skies their spirits look down upon this scene. 

The monument dedicated in 1887 was placed on East Eock's 
commanding height. The one we dedicate to-day stands on historic 
and hallowed ground. There was hard fighting on this spot on 
July 5, 1779, between the inhabitants of New Haven and the Brit- 
ish troops of George the Third. 

In dedicating this monument our thoughts are carried back to 
May 10, 1861. The Second Eegiment of Connecticut stood on our 
historic Green. The colors were presented. The word of com- 
mand was given. The band played the "Star Spangled Banner." 
Tlie column began to march, Alfred H. Terry riding ahead. It was 
New Haven's first regiment starting for the war. Men cheered 
them as they left. Women and children wept, as well they might, 



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for husbands and fathers and lovers were going out to die in the 
crash and thunder of awful war. Some who are here to-day were 
there that day. They have not forgotten the scene, and they know 
how the chords of sympathy were touched. The tramp of the men, 
the hoof beats of Terry's horse, the music which came from the 
"throbbing drums and wailing horns" as the men marched through 
the south gate of the Green still sound in the ears of those who 
witnessed what then transpired. The sight New Haven saw that 
day it was to see again and again, before the end was reached. It 
was a scene upon which the sun looked down in every town in those 
glorious and immortal days. 

Some who marched away that day, the bloom of immortal youth 
upon their cheeks, nevermore returned. They sleep under a South- 
ern sun, in unkno^vn graves. But let us remember that 

"Who falls for love of God shall rise a star." 

And over the heroes who never returned the elms of our city, 
like the trees of Ardennes, have shed their tears. The old Green 
over which they marched is hallowed by the memories of more than 
250 3^ears. Within its precincts lie buried some of the founders 
of the colony. There the drum taps of the Eevolution were heard, 
and the tramp of tlie old Continentals "in their ragged regimen- 
tals." 

Oil ! it seems as though those sounds even now come faintly to 
the ear like "far away forest leaves stirred to music" by the sum- 
mer breeze. 

On that Green, Arnold, as soon as the news of Lexington 
reached him, compelled the selectmen to yield the key to the powder 
magazine that he and his men might push on to Cambridge without 
waiting for orders. 

On that Green, Washington, on his way to take command of the 
Continental Army, had reviewed a company of men of Yale who 
proposed to give their services to the coimtry. On that Green in 
1824 Lafayette had reviewed the militia. And on that Green in 
1852 Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, had been honored. 

Upon the issue of slavery Connecticut had been conservative. 
In the Constitutional Convention her vote was cast, along with 
those of Southern States, for the provision which denied to Con- 
gress the right to prohibit, prior to 1808, the importation of slaves. 



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In 1831 our Supreme Court decided a case in which it was said a 
negro was a chattel and assets in the executor's hands. The Act 
which finally abolished slavery was not passed until 1848. 

In this Commonwealth, however, the master never had power 
of life and death over the slave. The slavery here tolerated was 
always qualified and never absolute. When war began Connecti- 
cut's Constitution was still on the white basis. None but white 
men voted here, and none but whites were taxed. 

But when the thunder of the guns was heard in Charleston 
harbor the echo rang like a tocsin through all our State, as the echo 
of Lexington and Concord had done in 1775. It was the same old 
Connecticut. The blood that coursed in the veins of Nathan Hale 
and old Israel Putnam and Jonathan Trumbull still fiowed in the 
veins of Connecticut's sons. The spirit of 1776 filled the air, and 
hovered in the skies, and rested upon the land of Connecticut. 
The spirit of the ancestors was in the hearts of their descendants. 
The sons of Connecticut were at the battle of Bull Eun as their 
fathers had been at the battle of Bunker Hill. As a Connecticut 
soldier was the ranking officer at Bunker Hill, so at Bull Eun, the 
sons of Connecticut led the advance, opened the battle, were not 
demoralized, and covered the retreat. Throughout the entire 
period of war the old Commonwealth kept her quota more than full. 
The State only had 80,000 voters, but there were 54,882 Connecti- 
cut volunteers. Not more than one or two States excelled this per- 
centage. This historic City of New Haven was true to its tradi- 
tions. It maintained its honorable place at the head of the muni- 
cipalities of the Commonwealth. It sent more men to the front 
than any other city in the State. It expended more money for 
war purposes than any other town in Connecticut. Every man who 
went from New Haven was a volunteer. Not one was a conscript. 
Yale University, founded to train men for service in Church and 
State, sent 758 of her sons to fight the battles of the Union, and 
106 of them died in service. Our old and honorable to\\Ti and our 
venerable university alike had their full share of heroes ready to 
do, to dare and to die for the preservation of the Eepublic. So 
may it be while the world stands ! 

Almost the first martyr of the war was Major Theodore Win- 
throp of New Haven, a graduate of Yale, a descendant of John 
Winthrop, the first governor of Connecticut. He fell on June 9, 



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1861, in the skirmish at Big Bethel, in Virginia, It was the first 
battle of the war, and Winthrop fell nearer the breastworks of the 
enemy than any man he led. Saturday last, on that Virginia soil, 
North Carolina dedicated a monument to the troops of her own 
State who won glory in that conflict. To-day, in this New England 
town, we. too, dedicate a soldiers' monument, and we remember 
Big Bethel and the Winthrop who fell on that historic field. 

The story can never be too often told of how the brave Button 
fell at Cedar Mountain, and how the gallant Merwin met death 
at Gettysburg. Let us tell our children and let them tell theirs 
how Colonel Peck was struck down with the word "Forward" on his 
lips, and with his dying breath said he could not die in a worthier 
cause. Tell them how Captain Wheeler threw his battery into a 
deadly gap, shouting "I will support myself." Tell them how 
General Terry stormed and carried Fort Fisher, and how on many 
battlefields he won immortal glory. Tell them of Admiral Foote, 
conspicuous among the brave, for daring conduct. Tell them how 
he steamed straight up to the muzzles of the guns at Fort Henry, 
compelling it to surrender. Tell of his conduct at Fort Donelson; 
how he pushed within a thousand feet of the batteries, his flagship 
struck sixty-one times and himself wounded. Tell them that Foote 
inaugurated a new epoch of naval warfare. That it was his mind 
which first perceived the value of iron-clad vessels and tested their 
qualities in actual combat. While there are others who went into 
the war as sons of New Haven, and whose names stand high upon 
the scroll of fame, the name of Foote, like that of Abou Ben Adhem, 
"will lead all the rest." 

The first iron-clad was constructed under the contract of a New 
Haven citizen. 

When the first battle of the war was fought Connecticut troops 
were on hand. When Lee surrendered, the troops of Connecticut 
were marshalled by the farmhouse at Appomatox. It is the glory 
of Connecticut that her fiag was first to displace the palmetto upon 
the soil of South Carolina, that it was the first to be planted in Mis- 
sissippi, and the first unfurled before New Orleans. 

You know your own history. I repeat familiar stories. But 
what a splendid record it is ! 

"Our lips must tell it to our sons. 
And they again to theirs." 



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Citizens! 'New Haven is a small city and Connecticut a small 

State, but the deeds of noble men have made both illustrious. 

There is no reason to be ashamed of the blood from which you 

sprang. 

If, to-day 

"A glory clothes our land from sea to sea," 

New Haven and Connecticut have done their full share in mak- 
ing it so. From the days of King Philip's war till now the sons of 
New Haven and of Connecticut have never faltered when duty 
called them into the arena of bloody strife. With the courage of 
noble men they have, in every time of peril, fearlessly grappled with 
"the fiery and bloody hands of war." It is a splendid tale which 
every parent can proudly tell and which succeeding generations 
will proudly hear. 

It is impossible to voice in song or story the admiration we feel 
for the dead heroes. 

But 

"When the long years have rolled slowly away 
E'en to the dawn of earth's funeral day; 
When at the Archangel's trumpet and tread 
Rise up the faces and forms of the dead; 
When the great world its last judgment awaits, 
When the blue sky shall swing open the gates 
And our long columns marching silently through 
Past the Great Captain for final review, 
Then from the blood that has flowed for the right 
Crowns shall spring upward, untarnished and bright ; 
Then the glad ears of each war-martyred son. 
Proudly shall hear the good tidings — 'Well done.' 
Blessings for garlands shall cover them over, 
Parent and husband, and brother and lover; 
God shall reward these dead heroes of ours, 
And cover them over with beautiful flowers." 

Greece erected on the plains of ]\Iarathon ten pillars, and 
inscribed on them the names of the 192 who, on that immortal field, 
drove back the Persian horde, and saved Greece from a tyrant's 
heel. 

"When on a razor's edge all Hellas stood, 

We who lie here preserved her with our blood." 

Greece thought that those who fell at Marathon, Thermopylas 
and Salamis were equally worthy of remembrance by gods and men. 



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We have inscribed on the monument we dedicate, not the names 
of our dead heroes, too many in number, but the battles in which 
they fought. We believe that the glorious and immortal service 
which these men rendered should live forever in the annals of our 
City, in the history of our State and Nation. 

The monument shall stand for centuries to come. Men shall 
read in it sermons in stone, and it shall preach to them how holy a 
thing it is to die for one's country. It shall summon the living to 
a nobler citizenship, as it tells of a government preserved through 
the blood of martyrs. It tells of three million fetters broken, and 
the curse of slavery gone. It tells of a State's right to secede van- 
ished like a mirage. It tells of a great nation, "Clad in spotless 
raiment and wearing a crown of stars," and founded upon the equal 
rights of all its people. It tells of a great republic extending from 
the coast to the mountains, and from the mountains across "the 
plains of sunset" to the Pacific sea, which has become the mightiest 
of the nations, and not a mere league of sovereign and independent 
States. It tells what the Lord God omnipotent wrought, through 
the nation's heroes, for the salvation of our land. 

As we think of what these, our heroes, achieved, we can say of 
them as was said of Leonidas and his heroes : 

"Of those who at Thermopylae were slain, 
Glorious the doom, and beautiful the lot; 
Their tomb an altar! Men from tears refrain, 
Honor and praise, but mourn them not." 

The men who fought at Gettysburg or Antietam can claim 
kindred on the other side with the men who fought at Thermopylae 
and Marathon. They can 

"Claim kindred there, and have the claim allowed." 

At the close of Professor Eogers' address General Greeley 
announced that the exercises of the day would close with the singing 
of the National Anthem, "America," by the audience, led by Prof. 
Jepson and the Boys' Choir. 



exercises at the monument 

IProcsrani 

1. Song — "Red, White and Blue." Boy Choir, Prof. Jepson, Conductor. 

2. Invocation, Rev. Newman Smyth, D.D. 

3. Introductory Remarks. Gen. E. S. Greeley. 

4. Responses for 7th Conn. Vols.. Private T. L. Norton. 

1st Light Battery, Private Edward Griswold. 

10th Conn. Vols., Corporal L. B. Brown. 

6th Conn. Vols., Capt. A. B. Beers. 

5. Song — 'TJnion Dixie," Boy Choir. 

6. Unveiling of Monimient, W. H. Warner, the armless soldier. 

7. Address, Capt. A. B. Beers, 6th C. V. 

Presenting Monument to the State of Connecticut. 

S. Address, His Excellency, Gov. Henry Roberts. 

Accepting ilonument and transmitting it to custody of the 

City of New Haven. 

9. Remarks, Hon. John P. Studley. Mayor. 

Accepting the Trust. 

10. '"Star Spangled Banner," Boy Choir. 

11. Address, Hon. M. G. Bulkeley, U. S. Senator. 

12. Address, Rev. Watson L. Phillips, Chaplain 2d Co. Gov. Foot Guard. 

Meaning of this Monument. 

13. Address, Prof. Henry Wade Rogers. 

A Tribute to the Heroic Dead. 

14. Song — ""America,'' Audience, led by Prof. Jepson and Boy Choir. 

Soloists — Masters Irvin? Beebe and James Gilbert. 



Cbe Gv^ening Testivities 

Et Broadway Park 

It is estimated that at least ten thousand people assembled at 
the site of the monnment in the evening to continue the celebration 
of the day. Broadway was in a blaze of glory with a splendid 
illumination. A band concert was given by the City Band imder 
Professor Xichols, leader. Fine music was rendered and the people 
enjoved the spectacle of decorated buildings made brilliant by illu- 
minations. Broadway presented a fine appearance. The celebra- 
tion of the evening closed with a fine display of fireworks. 



monument Day Dedication Ccmminee 

Gen. E. 5. Gexelzy, Presilez: of the Dav. 

l5nTATI03fS. 

Hon. J. P. Studley, Chairman. 
Oen. E. S. Greeley, Capt. A. B. Beers, 

Comrade J. T. Sloan, Comrade W. H. Bouron. 

EXTE:BTAiy3IE>-T COilitlTTEE, Gea^D AEilT VeTEBA^S. 

T. E. Worthingtonj Chairman. 
F. A. Munson, W. E. Morgan, 

Geo. X. Morse, W. B. Isbell, 

D. B. Horton, J. M. Crowe, 
Lambert J. Bristol, Edward Coe. 

Geo. Barnes. 
G. A. R. Reception CoiiiirrrEE. 
Comrade Fred H. Waldron, Chairman. 
Comrade Hiram T. Peck, Wallace B. Hall, 

Capt. Lawrence O'Brien, Wm. E. Whittlesey. 

Committee o>- Decobatioxs. 
Everett E. Lord, Chairman. 
Philip Pond, J. X. Champion, 

Geo. F. Burgess, Comrade C. P. DeForest. 

Receptiox Commtttee. 
Geo. B. Martin, Chairman. 
G«o. A. Ailing, W. .J. Atwater, 

Gen. Geo. H. Ford, C. E. Thompson, 

S. E. Dibble, Capt. X. Easterbrook, Jr. 

Gen. S. E. Merwin, Wilson H. Lee, 

Max Adler, Col. R, Trowbridge, 

Gen. E. S. Bradley, John McCarthy, 

Col. A. C. Hendrick, Col. S. J. Fox, 

Oen. E. S. Greeley, Capt. C. E. Rotinds, 

F. A. Corbin, Capt. (Jeo. M. Harmon. 

Gen. E. D. S. Goodyear, Sherwood S. Thompson, 

H. Lynde Harrison, Capt. Benj. Jepson, 

Col. Theo. H. Macdonald, F. S. Ward. 

Commtttee ox Cabriages. 
Gen. A. H. Embler, Chairman. 

E. I. Atwater, Seymour C. Loomis, 

Col. E. E. Tisdale, Capt. X. Easterbrook, Jr. 

Committee ox Tbaxspobtatiox. 

Wm. S. Wells, late of the U. S. Xa^-y. 

Commtttee ox Fixaxce. 

Gen. E. S. Greeley, Chairman. Virgil F. MeXeil, Wm. H. Bouton. 

Bboadwat Mebchaxts' Commtttee. 

Hobert C. Lightbourn, Chairman. Frank Thompson, Ralph S. Pagter. 

J. H. Campbell, in charge of Band Concert. 

Committee ox Mesic — Prof. Benjamin Jepson. 



Entertainments. 

The Governor, Staff and State OflBcers and invited guests were 
met at the Union Station by the Reception Committee on arrival 
of their respective trains, and escorted to the Union League Club. 
After an informal reception they were entertained at lunch. At 
1.45 p. M. the Governor, Staff and guests took carriages and were 
escorted to their place in line of march. 

The Veterans of the First Connecticut Light Battery, Sixth, 
Seventh and Tenth Connecticut Volunteers, and out of town vet- 
eran soldiers who took part in the parade, were received by a com- 
mittee on entertainment and escorted to Music Hall and the rooms- 
of the G. A. R. on Court street, where they were entertained. They 
were served with dinner by the Woman's Relief Corps of Admiral 
Foote Post, G. A. R., from 12 to 1.30 p. m., after which the call 
was sounded and the Veterans, including the G. A. R. Posts, formed 
in line on Court street, right resting on Church, and marched to 
their place in line. 

The officers of the Monument Association appreciate in the 
highest degree the friendly interest in the success of the ceremony 
attending the dedication of the Monument by His Honor the 
Mayor, the Board of Aldermen and City Officials of ISTew Haven, 
and to the citizens who contributed towards its success by decorat- 
ing their homes and places of business, as well as by gifts of money 
towards defraying the expense of the celebration. 

The Police. 

The police arrangements at Broadway Park were admirable. 
The large throng of people assembled there were handled without 
confusion, and good order was maintained throughout the dedi- 
catory services. 

The streets on the line of march were well policed, and the- 
platoon of police who marched at the head of the column made a 
very creditable appearance. 

The Boy Choir. 

A notable feature of the dedication exercises was the singing 
of patriotic songs by one hundred and fifty boys from the public 
schools, under the leadership of Professor Benjamin Jepson, 
Director of Music, formerly a captain in the Tenth Regiment Con- 
necticut Volimteers. The songs were well rendered, voices good,, 
showing excellent training for the part they performed. 

The Chief Marshal. 
Major John Q. Tilson, Chief Marshal of the Day, is entitled to 
much credit for the very efficient service he rendered. 

The great success of the parade is dne to his promptness in mov- 
ing the column on time and attention given to details. The Con- 
necticut N^ational Guard never made a finer appearance. The* 
Governor's Foot Guard kept up its high reputation, and Troop A 
added much to the appearance of the parade. 






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